Political correctness will kill us faster than cancer. It stops us from taking necessary actions or saying necessary things because we become afraid of offending some piece of shit or another. Now Emmie may not like hearing this and she may lash out that I don't care about the deaths in Paris but I, among many others, have been talking about this for some time. A 1960s leftist philosophy named Michel Foucault warned about political correctness before it came to be. He talked about a century old idea of prison control. A central tower had access into every single cell of the prison. The windows were shuttered so that the convicts had no idea if they were actively being watched or not. All the convicts got punished for each infraction. So the convicts started to police each other on behavior and speech (political correctness) based on the idea that someone may be watching. Remember, this was from a left winger, a French left winger.
If she has anyway of placating terrorists then I'm all ears but right now the best way is to kill the terrorists here, there, and where they come from.
I will also point out the history of protest in this country; a hundred plus years ago those who wrote and complained about society decided that assassination and bombs were the answer. They started as writers and academics. In the 1960s, we had college students who protested about bad things before they decided that bombing people was the right thing (see Bill Ayres and the Weathermen). My take on the idiots in Mizzou is that they are being used as pawns for some other purpose. Their supporters on the teaching staff have shown a propensity towards fascist behavior. They really don't care about free speech or rights. They only care about their goals and we have yet to really hear what they are.
So for Emmie....welcome to the fight. Hope you stay with it.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
Dude, well said. Such a voice of reason... Fucking atrocity in Paris is so powerful like the airliner downed in Egypt most likely work of ISIS and of course 9/11. You add up all the "smaller tragedies" and you are left wondering are we at war?? What do you want to call this? Should we blame ourselves as a lot of lefties have? I don't like war and many of us don't but it is the last means to an end. Who are we fighting people? These people come from ALL OVER THE WORLD. They have struck in places outside of the middle East. We aren't fighting a certain nation or a group of nations... We are fighting a very violent group who have killed for and allied with nations such as Iran and Palestine. They are various factions scattered about in Asia and the middle East, africa. They are Sunnis and Shiites. With the largest and ever popular ISIS.
What are we fighting if we haven't just thrown up our hands as Emmie has. Our current president appears to just shrug off every murder that these groups commit like it was yesterday's news. Dude He blamed Benghazi on an anti Islam video... That is fucked up. We all know that was al qaeda.
I've never said all Muslims were a problem but if Christians were to wage war with the rest of the world and their religion gives reason... I'm not sure what... Never thought the bible gave people a mission to destroy nonchristians and taking over the world as well as bringing back some holy land. Wouldn't you be waging a crusade as it were with Christians? Well the same should apply here.
We are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Don't be a pussy and choose. So far the President and every nation so far are pussies. We keep bleeding because we LEAD FRoM BEHIND waiting for someone else to do the dirty work. What the fuck did our nation become... A nation of pussies. Fuck Russia has big brass balls doing what it does. Don't like Russia with its bully tactics but at least you know where they stand. We are just pussies letting everybody shove us each and every way saying shit we can't back up.
I'm sorry for the rambling rant. It is just our nation is breaking down and sometimes that is a good thing so a stronger one can be built from the ashes but I fear this nation will never be as we once were.
@SUPERDELPHIN, were you trying to be facetious? If you weren't you're conflating. Statistics can be used to support any conclusion when you conveniently forget certain factors like a lot of fucking politicians do to make their imaginary points.
Black people kill mostly black people because of gang warfare. They dont kill as many as whites i think but percapita they do more killings than their white brethren.That's prob true. Most murders are done by Christians because majority of America is Christian.
Now let's see... Muslims committing murder that rival the number of murders in America perhaps throughout the world even the US. Almost 3000 people died from 9/11 alone. And you think it is wise to ignore the problem? It has hit our nation enough. I understand there will always fringe dumbasses. Those will never stop but with this ideology spread out everywhere and not many who will condemn their religion for what it calls for then it makes you wonder... Notice the black outrage for so called police brutality which is a problem but not as widespread as they make you believe.... What I'm saying is when a movement rises as the ISIS movement has... You will see that people who you thought were normal will go out and do atrocious things because they feel empowered by the moment. It gives more justification to their zealous thinking.
How much more convincing do you need that we are fighting Islam? We aren't fighting a nation or a certain sect of people. We are fighting basically the Muslim world. You think the Muslims who don't fight are not a problem? They provide funds to the fighters/jihadists. They provide support.
Hard choices need to be made. Eliminating cancer can be destructive to the whole body but is that necessary? Don't be pussies and open your eyes. Understand the cancer won't stop spreading no matter who started it all... And I don't think America started it.. It may have exacerbated it but it didn't lead the Muslims down this path... They were on it since the beginning.
End of rant.